/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Ah, this is an easy one!
Let's go through salts mechanisms of actions one by one:

Bitterness:
Salt reduces bitterness, literally at the receptor level!
Bitterness, for whatever reason, depends on activation of the total aggregate of receptors, unlike umami and sweetness.
Think of bitterness like a gauge from 0 to 100, and every receptor throws in a little bit of "we're bitter"ness onto that gauge, unlike sweetness where a single receptor screaming "I'M SWEET" will get a sweet reaction.
The sodium in salt (sodium chloride) seems to literally fit into the allosteric site of the receptor, preventing it from triggering like keeping your hand on a door knob!
You can read more here, at your leisure: https://academic.oup.com/chemse/article/29/5/431/368354

>>13824935
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>>13820548
R-really? What about it don't you like?